Coming from Lua, I kind of get your problem. Over there we often debate about whether or not localising module functions is worth the effort to save one table l

Coming from Lua, I kind of get your problem. Over there we often debate about whether or not localising module functions is worth the effort to save one table lookup per function call, but when you look for resources on optimising javascript, you often get much more high-level information that I had just taken completely for granted (and it's even worse in Ruby)